From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 2 9:58: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from easeway.com (ns1.easeway.com [209.69.39.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B355B14DD1 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:57:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@easeway.com) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by easeway.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id MAA13839 for stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:40:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199909021640.MAA13839@easeway.com> Subject: suggestion: distfiles CD To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:40:25 -0400 (EDT) From: mwlucas@exceptionet.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Just an idea I wanted to run by people: I'm not sure if anyone would be interested, and it might make the project some dough. (Alternately, I might be the only poor bastard in this position, but it can't hurt to ask.) As FreeBSD seems to be doing three releases a year, I find that the distfiles and packages on my machine are increasingly out of date. In my case, fetching distfiles and packages at work is difficult. I cvsup at home, and upgrade my ports tree accordingly. But for the last month, my distfiles CD has been completely useless. Every distfile I've wanted, I've had to download. If the mid-September date for the release of 3.3 is accurate, that means I have at least another month, probobly six weeks, until I get an updated CD. If FreeBSD is coming out only every four months, might people be interested in a "distfiles/packages" CD set on the alternate four months? The work would be minimal, compared to a regular snapshot. I, at least, would pay for it. Hell, I'd subscribe. Of course, I'm sure everyone else has a real Internet connection, and doesn't have to worry about this. ==ml -- Michael Lucas | Exceptionet, Inc. | www.exceptionet.com "Exceptional Networking" | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message